Even in ordinary speech we call a person unreasonable whose outlook is narrow, who is conscious of one thing only at a time, and w...ho is consequently the prey of his own caprice, whilst we describe a person as reasonable whose outlook is comprehensive, who is capable of looking at more than one side of a question and of grasping a number of details as parts of a whole.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and be...cause we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »